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Like many tech shares, the NEXTDC Ltd (ASX: NXT) share price has had a very tough start to the year.

Since the start of 2022, the data centre operator’s shares have fallen 12%.

This means the NEXTDC share price is now in negative territory on a 12-month basis.

What’s happening with the NEXTDC share price?

Investors have been selling down the NEXTDC share price along with other ASX tech shares this year following a selloff on the Nasdaq index.

That selloff has been driven by the release of minutes from the US Federal Reserve, which indicated that the increasingly hawkish central bank may remove its support for financial markets sooner than anticipated. This includes increasing interest rates quicker than previously expected.

Rising interest rates are bad news for shares that trade on high multiples. That’s because they form part of the financial models that valuations are based on.

When interest rates are low, valuations are higher. The opposite happens when interest rates rise, which is the scenario we are facing right now.

According to a recent note out of Citi, it is expecting NEXTDC to deliver earnings per share of 3 cents in FY 2022, 8 cents in FY 2023, and then 16 cents in FY 2024. This means the NEXTDC share price is trading at approximately 71x FY 2024 earnings today, which is significantly higher than the market average.

Though, it is worth highlighting that NEXTDC is investing heavily in its future growth, so these earnings estimates are not truly indicative of its actual earnings power.

Is this a buying opportunity?

While buying into the tech sector right now carries a lot more risk because of the hawkish Fed, Citi appears to believe that patient investors will be rewarded.

The broker has a buy rating and $15.40 price target on its shares. Based on the current NEXTDC share price of $11.36, this implies potential upside of almost 36% for investors.

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Given how low interest rates are, dividend shares remain a very popular way for investors to generate a passive income.

Fortunately, the Australian share market is not short of companies that share their profits with investors in the form of dividends. Two such shares are listed below. Here’s why analysts have given buy ratings to these dividend shares:

Inghams Group Ltd (ASX: ING)

The first ASX dividend share to look at is Inghams. Australia’s leading poultry producer is having a very tough time at the moment because of COVID-19 headwinds. This led to the release of a disappointing trading update earlier this week.

However, the team at Goldman Sachs has suggested that this could be a buying opportunity for investors. This morning it retained its buy rating with a trimmed price target of $3.90.

It commented: “We remain Buy-rated on ING as we are attracted to its relatively defensive revenue stream; duoploy industry structure; strong balance sheet and undemanding valuation. ING is trading at 13.4x our revised FY22 EPS (vs peers on an average 15.2x) and attractive 5% fully franked yield. Our revised TP offers 23% total return over 12 months.”

Goldman is then forecasting dividend yields of 6.2% in FY 2023 and 7.2% in FY 2024.

Jumbo Interactive Ltd (ASX: JIN)

Another ASX dividend share to consider is Jumbo Interactive. It is the growing online lottery ticket seller behind the OzLotteries business. In addition, it has the Powered by Jumbo software as a service business which has a significant global opportunity.

Analysts at Morgans are very positive on the company. They currently have an add rating and $20.20 price target on its shares.

Morgans commented: “While JIN has recovered strongly since its August result, we remain attracted to the strong cash generation and balance sheet optionality afforded from its core LR business (+ Oz Lotto refresh upside) and long-term growth potential of its SaaS and Managed Services business, which remain exposed to large, global addressable markets.”

The broker is forecasting fully franked dividends per share of 45 cents in FY 2022 and 52 cents in FY 2023. Based on the current Jumbo share price of $18.35, this will mean yields of 2.5% and 2.8%, respectively, for investors.

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The Cettire Ltd (ASX: CTT) share price has surged 480% over the past year. But is it now too late to invest?

Cettire shares were actually up even more in mid-November 2021 when it reached $4.75. It has declined by approximately 33% since then.

What does Cettire do?

Readers may not be familiar with this business. It isn’t really a household name yet.

Cettire is an e-commerce business which sells a very wide range of luxury personal goods. It has over 200,000 products of clothing, shoes bags and accessories from around 1,700 luxury brands. It describes itself as a global retailer.

How fast is it growing?

In FY21, Cettire delivered growth that it called “exceptional”, which significantly outperformed both the FY21 prospectus forecast and upgraded guidance.

The e-commerce ASX share reported that sales revenue rose by 304% to $92.4 million. The increase was 352% in constant currency terms.

Active customers rapidly increased, with growth of 285% to 114,830. More customers are coming back. In FY21, 40% of gross revenue was from repeat customers (up from 26% in FY20).

Profitability was higher than expected. The adjusted earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) was $2.1 million, whilst the statutory net loss was just $0.3 million. It managed to generate $12.7 million of positive operating cashflow thanks to its capital-light model.

Is it too late to invest for growth?

Cettire’s management certainly don’t think that the growth has finished. With the release of the FY21 result, the founder and CEO Dean Mintz said:

There is a significant market penetration opportunity ahead for Cettire. A key objective in pursuing our initial public offering (IPO) was to unlock new and incremental growth opportunities…Our number one priority is to maximise the global revenue potential of the company by taking a long-term view. We will continue to invest in opportunities aligned to our strategy, with a near-term focus on customer acquisition, technology enhancements and building organisational capability.

Our focus in FY22 is on continuing to enhance our customer proposition, centred around our vast range of luxury products, value and rapid fulfilment, all of which are enabled by our deep and diverse supply chain and world class, proprietary technology.

Triple digit growth has continued into FY22. For the four months to 31 October 2021, sales revenue was up 172% to $57.8 million, active customers increase 220% to 158,260 and the number of orders rose 209%.

October monthly traffic was up 379% year on year and Cettire said it’s seeing very positive early signs from the migration to its proprietary storefront, with sales growth in “migrated” markets outpacing the company’s other markets.

Cettire share price snapshot

With Cettire shares dropping by a third since the middle of November, the company’s market capitalisation is now $1.2 billion according to the ASX.

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The Afterpay Ltd (ASX: APT) share price won’t be trading on the Australian share market for much longer.

This follows the release of an update on its takeover by Block Inc (NYSE: SQ) (previously named Square) this morning.

What was announced?

This morning Afterpay announced that Block has received approval from the Bank of Spain for its takeover of the buy now pay later giant.

This means that the takeover is now fully unconditional and will be implemented without the need for further shareholder or court approval in accordance with the implementation timetable.

Afterpay’s Chair, Elana Rubin, commented: “Afterpay, its leadership and team have shown that groundbreaking fintech innovation built in Australia can reach global proportions. The team are incredibly excited at the prospect of beginning an extraordinary next phase with Block, Inc. and look forward to implementation on 1 February 2022.”

“On behalf of the Board and management, thank you to our shareholders, customers, merchants, broader stakeholders and regulators, for recognising the potential of this incredible company and for sharing in the vision of fairness and financial freedom for all,” she added.

What’s next?

With this approval now received, Afterpay shareholders will have a decision to make if they haven’t done so already.

By 17 January, shareholders will need to decide whether they want to receive US-listed Block shares or new Block CDIs listed on the Australian share market. The latter is the default option for local investors if no decision is made.

Two days later on 19 January, the Afterpay share price will be suspended from trade at the close of play.

After which, the following day, Block’s CDIs will commence trade on the Australian share market under the ticker SQ2 on a deferred settlement basis. Finally, on 2 February, SQ2 shares will commence trading on a normal settlement basis.

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These S&P/ASX 200 Index (ASX: XJO) shares offer attractive dividend yields for investors.

Businesses that have a relatively high dividend payout ratios and attractive valuations can have good yields on offer.

There are plenty of ASX 200 shares that pay dividends such as Westpac Banking Corp (ASX: WBC), Rio Tinto Limited (ASX: RIO) and Santos Ltd (ASX: STO).

However, these two income stocks could be particularly interesting for dividend investors:

Premier Investments Limited (ASX: PMV)

Premier Investments is one of the leading ASX 200 shares involved in the retail industry. It has a number of apparel brands within its portfolio such as Just Jeans, Peter Alexander, Jay Jays, Dotti and Portmans. It also owns Smiggle, as well as sizeable investments in Breville Group Ltd (ASX: BRG) and Myer Holdings Ltd (ASX: MYR).

In FY21, Premier Investments’ board declared a final fully franked dividend of $0.46 per share (up 27.8%), taking the full year fully franked dividend to $0.80 per share (up 14.3%).

The trailing full year dividend of $0.80 per share, translates to a grossed-up dividend yield of 4.2%.

The ASX 200 dividend share experienced a large rise in profitability during FY21, which included strong online growth. FY21 retail global sales rose 18.7% to $1.4 billion with Peter Alexander sales rising 34.7% to $388.2 million. Overall online sales jumped 36.4% to $300.7 million. FY21 net profit rose 97.3% to $271.8 million.

Despite widespread lockdowns for many of its stores in the first 17 weeks of FY22, Premier Investments’ sales were only down by 3.5% and had improved nicely from the update given in September 2021 when its FY22 was only a few weeks old.

According to Commsec, the Premier Investments share price is valued at 20x FY22’s estimated earnings with a projected grossed-up dividend yield of 4.7%.

Dicker Data Ltd (ASX: DDR)

Dicker Data claims to be Australia’s leading distributor of IT hardware, software, cloud and internet of things solutions for reseller partners. It helps business clients transition customers through technological change.

The IT business is benefiting in a number of areas, with strong growth since the onset of COVID as more businesses need cloud infrastructure and home office capabilities.

On top of that, the continuing global chip shortage and consequent supply constraints have contributed to an overall improvement in “margin quality”. This is expected to continue for the foreseeable future.

Dicker Data is experiencing strong demand with a backlog of orders to fulfil and as supply improves, it’s expecting to meet this demand in the final quarter of 2021.

The ASX 200 dividend share notes that the role of technology in business success continues to proliferate and the evolving hybrid and modern workforce becomes increasingly dependent on more intelligent, faster and collaborate tech solutions.

Cybersecurity is another area that Dicker Data can generate growing earnings from.

In the company’s latest update for the nine months to September 2021, it reported that total revenue was up 16.1% to $1.72 billion and profit before tax had increased by 26% to $76.6 million.

The last 12 months of dividends amounts to a grossed-up dividend yield of 4%. According to Commsec, the Dicker Data share price is valued at 27x FY23’s estimated earnings.

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The Altium Limited (ASX: ALU) share price has fallen by around 11% in the early stages of 2022. But does the decline of the ASX tech share make it an attractive investment opportunity?

Altium is one of the world leaders when it comes to electronic PCB software providers. However, it is offering an increasing number of services these days. For example, Octopart is a leading search engine for electrical parts.

Is the Altium share price an opportunity?

Losing a tenth of its market capitalisation could be a significant decline in investors’ eyes

However, the decline may not be enough for some analysts. A fairly recent rating from Citi is ‘buy’, but the price target is $35.40. That means the broker thinks that Altium shares could decline by another 10% during this year.

The brokers at Macquarie have an even lower price target of $27.10. That implies the Altium share price could fall by more than 30% during the next several months. Analysts suggest that the Altium share price may have run too hard for what the company is expecting for the shorter-term.

How confident is the company right now?

Altium is focusing on a number of areas so that it can deliver on its goal of transforming the electronics industry.

One of the ways that Altium is looking to win over new subscribers and retain current ones is with its cloud platform called Altium 365, a first for the global industry. At the time of the mid-November AGM, Altium 365 had 17,300 active users and 7,300 active accounts.

During the AGM it revealed that 15% of seats are on a cloud subscription, with 40% in transition.

For readers that haven’t heard of Altium 365 before, it aims for be a platform for all software engineering disciplines to collaborate, design and build electronics for manufactured products.

Altium claims to be at the heart of the digital engineering ecosystem as the increasingly dominant provider of electronic design tools. Altium Designer is now the most widespread professional PCB design tool used by 100,000 engineers worldwide.

In FY22, the business is looking to accelerate adoption, scale enterprise sales through strategic partnerships, roll-out its digital sales platform and expand the Octopart total addressable market with its integration into Nexar.

One factor that could be helpful for the Altium share price could be growth of licence compliance in China and, in time, recurring revenue through Altium 365 China.

Finally, it’s launching Altimade and laying the foundation for smart manufacturing with a high profit margin.

The first four months of FY22 were “strong” and it’s on track to achieve its guidance. That guidance is for revenue to grow by between 16% to 20%, an underlying earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) margin of between 34% to 36% and annualised recurring revenue (ARR) growth of 23% to 27%.

Long-term expectations

Altium notes that it’s estimated that the number of active internet of things (IoT) devices will pass 25.4 billion in 2030. This could be a good tailwind for Altium.

By 2025, Altium is looking to achieve US$500 million of revenue. The ASX tech share says that delivering value to shareholders is a hallmark of Altium.

Describing its approach to executing on its goals, Altium said:

Altium innovates and disrupts aggressively while consistently delivering a strong financial performance more typical of a blue chip company.

Altium share price valuation

Looking at the estimates for the next couple of years, Citi’s numbers put Altium shares at 82x FY22’s estimated earnings and 68x FY23’s estimated earnings.

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The Wesfarmers Ltd (ASX: WES) share price performed well through 2021.

After ending 2020 trading at $50.40, the company’s share price rose to close 2021 at $59.30.

That means the retail conglomerate gained 17.66% last year, recording a high of $67.20 and a low of $49.01.

For context, the S&P/ASX 200 Index (ASX: XJO) gained 13% last year.

Here’s a run-down of some of the company’s best moments on the ASX in 2021, and some of its worst.

Here’s what moved the Wesfarmers share price in 2021

The Wesfarmers share price started 2021 out on the wrong foot, plummeting 7% in a week after releasing both its results for the first half of financial year 2021 and news of its lithium joint venture.

After the market closed on 7 February, Wesfarmers announced it had committed to funding its joint venture, Covalent Lithium‘s, Kwianna Refinery. It also announced it had finalised the Mt Holland project’s updated definitive feasibility study.

The following morning, it released its half year earnings. The company posted a 16.6% increase in revenue (approximately $17.77 billion), a 23.3% increase to earnings before interest and tax (EBIT) (around $2.13 billion), and a 25.5% jump in net profit after tax (approximately $1.41 billion).

It was a similar story for the company’s full year results, released in August. Wesfarmers was once again up in all major financial metrics – except operating cash flows – and announced a $2.3 capital return to shareholders.

Though, once again, the market responded poorly, bidding the Wesfarmers share price 2.75% lower.

Finally, in mid-2021, Wesfarmers announced its intent to takeover the owner of Priceline, Australian Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd (ASX: API).

Initially, the ASX 200 giant posed an offer of $1.38 per share for the pharmaceutical company. However, API’s board rejected that offer.

It upped its bid to $1.55 in September, and there it stays.

That’s despite both Woolworths Group Ltd (ASX: WOW) and Sigma Healthcare Ltd (ASX: SIG) posting rival bids. Each of the rival bids has since been withdrawn.

Now, the market is awaiting the release of a scheme booklet containing more details of the acquisition.

As of its most recent close, the Wesfarmers share price had slumped to trade at $56.35. That represents a 4.9% fall for 2022 so far.

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On Tuesday, the S&P/ASX 200 Index (ASX: XJO) was out of form and tumbled notably lower. The benchmark index fell 0.7% to 7,390.1 points.

Will the market be able to bounce back from this on Wednesday? Here are five things to watch:

ASX 200 expected to rebound

The Australian share market looks set to rebound on Wednesday following a strong night of trade on Wall Street. According to the latest SPI futures, the ASX 200 is expected to open the day 53 points or 0.7% higher this morning. In late trade in the United States, the Dow Jones is up 0.3%, the S&P 500 is up 0.6%, and the Nasdaq is trading 1.1% higher.

Inghams shares given buy rating

The Inghams Group Ltd (ASX: ING) share price was sold off on Tuesday after the release of a disappointing trading update. The team at Goldman Sachs appears to see this as a buying opportunity for investors. This morning the broker retained its buy rating but trimmed its price target to $3.90. Goldman said: “We remain Buy-rated on ING as we are attracted to its relatively defensive revenue stream; duoploy industry structure; strong balance sheet and undemanding valuation.”

Oil prices storm higher

Energy producers such as Beach Energy Ltd (ASX: BPT) and Woodside Petroleum Limited (ASX: WPL) could have a good day after oil prices stormed higher. According to Bloomberg, the WTI crude oil price is up 3.5% to US$80.95 a barrel and the Brent crude oil price has risen 3.3% to US$83.55 a barrel. Easing Omicron concerns boosted prices.

Gold price rises

Gold miners Evolution Mining Ltd (ASX: EVN) and Northern Star Resources Ltd (ASX: NST) will be on watch after the gold price pushed higher. According to CNBC, the spot gold price is up 1.15% to US$1,819.60 an ounce. Traders were bidding the gold price higher after the US dollar and US Treasury yields softened.

Tech shares on watch

It could be a much-needed good day for tech shares including Afterpay Ltd (ASX: APT) and Altium Limited (ASX: ALU) after US tech stocks rebounded. As the local tech sector tends to follow the Nasdaq index, its gain of 1.1% on Wall Street bodes well for Aussie tech shares on Wednesday.

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If you’re a fan of growth shares, then you may want to look closely at the three shares listed below.

Here’s why these could be growth shares to buy:

Altium Limited (ASX: ALU)

Altium is an electronic design software provider behind the Altium 365 and Altium Designer platforms. It also has a number of complementary businesses such as Nexus and Octopart. All in all, these have positioned the company perfectly to profit from the increasing demand for electronic design software due to the rapidly growing Internet of Things (IoT) and AI markets. Jefferies has a buy rating and $48.83 price target on the company’s shares.

Breville Group Ltd (ASX: BRG)

Breville is one of the world’s leading appliance manufacturers. It has been growing at a consistently solid rate for the last decade and looks well-placed to continue this trend in the future. This is thanks to the popularity of its numerous brands (Breville, Kambrook, Sage, etc), its international expansion, acquisitions, favourable consumer trends, and its ongoing investment in R&D. The latter ensure its products are at the forefront of industry innovation. Macquarie is very positive on the company and has an outperform rating and $34.37 price target on its shares.

Domino’s Pizza Enterprises Ltd (ASX: DMP)

Domino’s is one of the world’s largest pizza chain operators with stores across the ANZ, Asia-Pacific, and European regions. At the end of FY 2021, the company had a total of 2,974 stores across its network. While this is undoubtedly a large number, management isn’t planning to stop there. In fact, it is targeting 6,650 stores in existing markets by 2033. It also has the balance sheet capacity to expand into other markets through acquisitions. All in all, this bodes well for its growth over the next decade. Goldman Sachs is a fan of the company. It currently has a buy rating and $147.00 price target on Domino’s shares.

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Today, the S&P/ASX 200 Index (ASX: XJO) disappointed investors with another red showing. At the end of the session, the benchmark index was down 0.71% to 7,710.7 points.

Unfortunately, it was another somewhat sombre showing across the Aussie share market today. After the dust settled, only one sector managed to finish in the green. With a few strong performing gold and iron ore miners, the materials sector finished 0.03% higher. Meanwhile, consumer staples ended up being the worst-performing sector.

However, the question is: which shares delivered the biggest returns to investors on the ASX today? Here are the top ten stocks that came through for investors:

Top 10 ASX shares countdown today

Looking at the top 200 listed companies, Alumina Ltd (ASX: AWC) was the biggest gainer today. Shares in the alumina and aluminium mining and refining company added 3.88% despite there being no new announcements. Find out more about Alumina here.

The next biggest gaining ASX share today was Magellan Financial Group Ltd (ASX: MFG). The fund manager enjoyed a 2.72% rise in its share price irrespective of there being no news from the company today. Uncover the latest Magellan Financial Group details here.

Today’s top 10 biggest gains were made in these ASX shares:

ASX-listed company	Share price	Price change
Alumina Ltd (ASX: AWC)	$2.01	3.88%
Magellan Financial Group Ltd (ASX: MFG)	$21.15	2.72%
Evolution Mining Ltd (ASX: EVN)	$3.86	2.66%
Fortescue Metals Group Ltd (ASX: FMG)	$21.12	2.33%
TELIX Pharmaceuticals Ltd (ASX: TLX)	$8.35	2.20%
Zimplats Holdings Ltd (ASX: ZIM)	$24.49	2.08%
Incitec Pivot Ltd (ASX: IPL)	$3.44	2.05%
AGL Energy Ltd (ASX: AGL)	$6.96	2.01%
Virgin Money UK PLC (ASX: VUK)	$3.55	1.82%
Zip Co Ltd (ASX: Z1P)	$3.92	1.79%

Our top 10 ASX shares today countdown is a recurring end-of-day summary to ensure you know which companies were making big moves on the day. Check-in at Fool.com.au after the market has closed during weekdays to see which stocks make the countdown.

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